A sustained attack by Syrian government forces has recaptured most of the strategic city of Homs. And the struggling rebels increasingly feel abandoned by the outside world.
Fighters in Libya are giving loyalists in Sirte, the birthplace of Col. Moammar Gadhafi, until this weekend to surrender. BBC correspondent Paul Wood filed this report while on the road to Sirte.
Colonel Gadhafi's fighters are still putting up fierce resistance at his compound in Tripoli, and making sporadic attacks elsewhere in the capital and other areas of the country. Paul Wood, from our partner the BBC, joins us.
Paul Wood and Michael Buchanan, both from our partner the BBC, help us look at the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan.